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• Scientists Count Microscopic Particles Without Microscope

  …ary ways. However, fabricating optical materials with desired properties is a laborious process that needs constant improvement. A research team from ITMO University, Ioffe Institute, and Australian National University for the first time suggested analyzing the structure of photonic crystals using optical diffraction method, that is, by looking at the light patter…

  09.08.2016

• Joining Big Science: How PCs Help Large-Scale Projects

  …. Despite the fact that signals by aliens were not found and people lost interest in the project experts realized that volunteers can assist in solving global tasks. It inspired them to launch BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), the open platform for involving individuals in computing projects. Everybody can participate by offering faci…

  09.08.2016

• Russia’s First Multi-Node Quantum Network: the Next Step for Quantum Communications of Tomorrow

  … photons transform completely. Quantum communication systems will become a foundation for a new generation of network security systems, which will be in great demand among all institutions that need to exchange confidential data – financial, governmental and industrial. In the nearest future, quantum communications are to be integrated into the Internet of Things con…

  08.08.2016

• Drones at Work: Delivering Pizza, Searching for the Lost... and Dismembering Snowmen

  …-shots jobs, sometimes big ones - like delivering 500 packages during a month. In a number of countries, drones have already caused a range of dangerous situations. For instance, there are many videos of drones delivering drugs on the Internet, as well as of drones flying in the airport's aerial space near the planes, and others. Actually, it's easy to imagine…

  08.08.2016

• Life-hacks for Studying Abroad: Students Share their Advices

  …ng it as soon as the university approves your application. Note that it can take from 4 days to a couple of weeks for the I-20 form to arrive via the postal service. Medical insurance is mandatory. The university offers a medical insurance from its partner company, which costs $2,000, though our fellows who went to Rochester after us …

  08.08.2016

• 5 Things We Loved This Week

  …Olympics inspire research. From urban pollution (Beijing 2008), to sprawl of security (London 2012), to relationships between athletes and coaches, Olympics are a catalyst for research in a variety of fields, with social sciences, medicine and engineering taking the pedestal. Nature Quantum computer getting closer. Researchers at the University of Oxford have achi…

  06.08.2016

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam for the Third Time

• I, Chatterbot: Why Virtual Conversational Partners are on Trend Again

  …ovide programmers with handy APIs featuring whole sets of classes and procedures, using which the program can exchange data with the server and carry out different tasks - for instance, add new links to the interface or make electronic payments. One can also integrate possibilities of different platforms: to request access to one's Facebook account in order to find o…

  05.08.2016

• Big City Traffic Made Effective: from Paid Parking to Life-Hacks

  …ry looking at the extremities, a 100% workload is bad as well -  that would mean that we still can't park in the city center. Such things happened in Moscow and in London, for instance. On the other hand, if we've got a low workload, say, under 50%, that means that we have too much free space that could be used. The understanding of the balance will come from studyin…

  05.08.2016

• A Vegetarian’s Guide to St. Petersburg

  …rgskaya metro station. But that has now changed and changed very radically. The city is now teeming with excellent options for vegetarians and even their more picky first cousins, those pesky and demanding folk known as Vegans. Take, for example, Cafe Auroville, which is not far from Chernishevskaya metro station (Radischev Street, 5). It is not only a place where y…

  04.08.2016